as in needles
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
the syringe the nurse was leveling at my arm looked to me to be at least 10 inches long
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needles
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The slightly thinner, trailing branches include a mix of long and short needles.—
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That said, its functionality should improve considerably once the technology is scaled up, which would partially involve adding more needles to the knitting block.—
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5 Nov. 2025
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“Syringes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syringes. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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